Lauman beckoned to his deputy.
"You go with 'em, Waller," he ordered.

"If anybody but me offers to lift this trap, shoot.

Don't yuh take any chances.

Blow out that candle soon as you're located." It was then that fifty riders clattered into the yard and up to the front door, grouping in a way that left no exit unseen.

Thurston, standing in the doorway, knew them almost to a man.